The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79Yale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 477 pages This edition of Ben Kiernan's account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. Kiernan's other books include 'Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur' and 'How Pol Pot Came to Power'. |
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... thousand inmates . Like Pol Pot , when their regime fell , Nuon Chea and Deuch had separately fled into exile on the remote Thai border . After reaching the frontier , Chea had learned of Deuch's failure to destroy the prison's archives ...
... thousand inmates . Like Pol Pot , when their regime fell , Nuon Chea and Deuch had separately fled into exile on the remote Thai border . After reaching the frontier , Chea had learned of Deuch's failure to destroy the prison's archives ...
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... thousand pages ob- 10. Report of the Group of Experts , pp . 19-20 . Stephen Heder and Brian Tittemore portray the UN report as hesitant on the genocide issue : " The Group of Experts concluded that while the CPK was in power the people ...
... thousand pages ob- 10. Report of the Group of Experts , pp . 19-20 . Stephen Heder and Brian Tittemore portray the UN report as hesitant on the genocide issue : " The Group of Experts concluded that while the CPK was in power the people ...
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... thousand photographs of victims , and three thousand catalogue records on Khmer Rouge - era documents , many of them digi- tally displayed . 14. This archive , now held at the Documentation Center of Cambodia , has been micro- filmed by ...
... thousand photographs of victims , and three thousand catalogue records on Khmer Rouge - era documents , many of them digi- tally displayed . 14. This archive , now held at the Documentation Center of Cambodia , has been micro- filmed by ...
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... thousand Khmers . Yet the country had already undergone major transformations by the middle of the twentieth century . 10 Under French colonial rule from 1863 , tra- ditional Cambodian intellectual institutions , such as Buddhist pagoda ...
... thousand Khmers . Yet the country had already undergone major transformations by the middle of the twentieth century . 10 Under French colonial rule from 1863 , tra- ditional Cambodian intellectual institutions , such as Buddhist pagoda ...
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... thousand civilian supporters poured onto the streets of the sleepy capital . A Japanese plane flew over the crowd in an appar- ent show of support.24 Otherwise Tokyo did little to help the Cambodian pro- testors . French police arrested ...
... thousand civilian supporters poured onto the streets of the sleepy capital . A Japanese plane flew over the crowd in an appar- ent show of support.24 Otherwise Tokyo did little to help the Cambodian pro- testors . French police arrested ...
Contents
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CHAPTER EIGHT Power Politics 197677 | 313 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN The End of the Pol Pot Regime | 440 |
Select Bibliography | 467 |
Other editions - View all
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer ... Ben Kiernan No preview available - 1996 |
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer ... Ben Kiernan No preview available - 2008 |
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer ... Ben Kiernan No preview available - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
Angkar April arrested arrived August Author's interview Bangkok Post base Battambang border Boua Brother Cambodia Center Chandler Chhouk chief China Chinese commander communist CPK secretary December Democratic Kampuchea deputy Deuch district document Eastern Zone enemy ethnic evacuated executed families forces former Genocide Hanoi Heder Heng Samrin Hou Yuon hundred Ieng Sary January July Kampot Kampuchea Krom Khieu Samphan Khmer Krom Khmer Rouge Kiernan killed Kirivong Koh Kong Kompong Cham leaders Lon Nol March Mekong military months Northern Zone Northwest November Nuon Chea October officials party peasants Phim Phnom Penh Phnom Penh Radio Pol Pot Pol Pot Plans political population Pot's Preah Prey Veng prison province Pursat recalls refugees regime Region 25 reported revolution rice Santebal says September 1980 Sihanouk soldiers Southwest Zone subdistrict Svay Takeo Thai Thailand thousand Thuon told tons troops Tuol Sleng Vickery Vietnam Vietnamese village Vorn Vet workers